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Charlotte’s Web is a computer-animated feature film , settled on the popular book of the same name by E.B. White. It is took by Gary Winick and created by Paramount Pictures, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, and Nickelodeon films. The screenplay is by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, supported White’s book.

It is the 2nd film adaptation of White’s book, preceded by a 1973 cel-animated variation produced by Hanna-Barbera for Paramount Pictures. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.

One spring, on a farm in Maine, Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) hears that her father plans to kill the runt of a litter of newborn pigs. She successfully begs him to spare the piglet’s life. The farmer gives the tiny pig to Fern, who names him Wilbur and raises him as her pet. To Fern’s regret, when Wilbur grows into an adult pig, Fern is forced to take him to the Zuckerman farm, where he is to be cooked as dinner in due time.

Charlotte (Julia Roberts), a spider, exists in the space above Wilbur’s sty in the Zuckermans’ barn; she befriends Wilbur and decides to help prevent him from being eaten. With the help of the other barn animals, including a rat named Templeton (Steve Buscemi), she convinces the Zuckerman family that Wilbur is actually quite special, by spelling out descriptions of him in her web: “Some pig”, “Terrific”, “Radiant” and “Humble”. Charlotte gives her full name as “Charlotte A. Cavatica”, revealing her as a barn spider, an orb-weaver spider with the scientific name Araneus cavaticus.

The farm family, Wilbur, Charlotte, and Templeton go to a fair, where Wilbur is entered in a contest. While there, Charlotte produces an egg sac. She cannot return home with Wilbur because she is dying. Wilbur tearfully says goodbye to Charlotte but manages to take her egg sac home, where hundreds of offspring emerge. Most of the young spiders soon leave, but three, named Joy, Aranea and Nellie, stay and become Wilbur’s friends.